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Thursday, December 31, 2015

How To Block Strangers From Messaging You On Vine In iOS 9

Thursday, December 31, 2015 by Alison Reed

In this post we will teach you how to block strangers from messaging you on Vine in iOS 9 in few steps. As you know with Vine’s 2.0 update release jailbroken iPhone owners has got the ability to send and receive instant messages to other Vine users. This has quickly generated an influx of unwanted messages and of course many Vine users would like find the way to somehow stop it. So follow step-by-step instructions below to tell Vine to block strangers from messaging you on the service.

How To Block Strangers From Messaging You On Vine On iOS 9 iPhone

Step 1: Vine’s messaging feature allows you to send private videos up to 6 seconds long or text conversation to others. You can send a single Vine message to up to 200 recipients. To access your Vine messages, hit the speech bubble icon in the top right corner.

Step 2: Open Vine’s iOS 9 iPhone app.

Step 3: Next, click the Profile tab at the bottom of the screen.

Step 4: Now pick Your content.

Step 5: Tick the box next to Open VM inbox as shown on the picture below. You will receive a warning message that changing the setting will prevent people outside your network from messaging you on Vine.

Step 6: Lastly, click on Confirm to continue.

As you know, your inbox section has two tabs: Friends and Other. The Other inbox collates messages from those folks who you don’t follow on Vine. When you follow someone, their messages will be automatically moved to your Friends inbox.

Now only users who you follow on Vine will be able to message you. As you see to block strangers from messaging you on Vine in iOS 9 is really very easy. And from now be sure that you are not be disturbed by messages from unknown persons.